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De Broglie–Bohm theory

De Broglie–Bohm theory

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Sep 17, 2026

Jonathan HalliwellGUEST
36:05
But there are other worldviews, if you like, other interpretations.
Jonathan HalliwellGUEST
36:08
One of the most famous Complements to these ideas is Bohmian mechanics, if you're familiar with that one, or de Broglie-Bohm theory, which basically does take standard quantum mechanics, which is based on a wave function, but says the particle has a wave function and it also has a position trajectory.
Jonathan HalliwellGUEST
36:26
Then you don't need to worry about is the particle here or there.
Jonathan HalliwellGUEST
36:30
The particle definitely has a trajectory, it's definitely somewhere.
DavidHOST
62:26
Is there a third option? Can we have a single deterministic universe?
speaker_1HOST
62:30
There is a third major contender, the de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory.
speaker_1HOST
62:34
This is a return to stark physical reality.
speaker_1HOST
62:37
In this interpretation, there is no wave-particle duality where a thing is both.
Jim Al-KhaliliGUEST
30:59
So the multiverse interpretation is one.
Jim Al-KhaliliGUEST
31:01
There's another interpretation called d- de Broglie–Bohm pilot waves, which actually is the one that I have a soft spot for.
Peter McCormackHOST
31:08
Okay.
Jim Al-KhaliliGUEST
31:09
It says there's only one universe, and that when you get entangled particles, they can indeed communicate instantaneously.
Robert WilesGUEST
34:36
And this is part of the problem with quantum mechanics.
Robert WilesGUEST
34:39
a Nobel laureate called de Broglie in the 1930s.
Robert WilesGUEST
34:45
He was the one who said that matter is both a wave and a particle at the same time.
Robert WilesGUEST
34:51
Got a Nobel Prize for it.
Robert WilesGUEST
35:01
He was a gentleman and he got shouted down by Niels Bohr and he said, that's fine and walked off.
Robert WilesGUEST
35:07
But in the 50s, Einstein pushed a fellow called David Bohm to further develop this model.
Robert WilesGUEST
35:14
It's now called the de Broglie Bohm model of quantum mechanics.
Robert WilesGUEST
35:19
And it's a quantum realist model.

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